WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/TTO/98 
15 March 2011  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :    
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Automotive Diesel Fuel 
(ICS:  75.160.20) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  TTS 569: 20XX - 
Automotive Diesel Fuel - Specific ation  (15 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:  This standard specifies the pr operties and test methods for 
automotive diesel fuel intended for sale in Trinidad and Tobago.  
This standard is applicable to diesel fuel formulated for motor vehi cles, both on and off the 
public roadways, equipped with compression ignition engines. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Compulsory status has been recommended in or der to protect the consumer or user against 
danger to health or sa fety by ensuring a produc t of acceptable quality.  
8. Relevant documents:   ASTM D86-10a, Standard Test Method for Di stillation of Petroleum 
Products at Atmospheric Pressure 
ASTM D93-10, Standard Test Methods for Flash Point by Pensky-Martens Closed Cup 
Tester 
ASTM D95-05(2010), Standard Test Method for Water in Petroleum Products and 
Bituminous Materials by Distillation  
ASTM D97-09, Standard Test Method for Pour Point of Petroleum Products  
ASTM D130-10, Standard Test Method for Corrosiven ess to Copper from Petroleum 
Products by Copper Strip Test  G/TBT/N/TTO/98 
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  ASTM D445-10, Standard Test Method for Kinematic Vi scosity of Transparent and Opaque 
Liquids (and Calculation of Dynamic Viscosity)  
ASTM D473-07, Standard Test Method for Sediment in  Crude Oils and Fuel Oils by the 
Extraction Method  
ASTM D482-07, Standard Test Method for Ash from Petroleum Products  
ASTM D613-10a, Standard Test Method for Cetane Number of Diesel Fuel Oil  
ASTM D1298-99(2005), Standard Practice for Density, Rela tive Density (Specific Gravity) 
or API Gravity of Crude Pe troleum and Liquid Petroleum Pr oducts by Hydrometer Method  
ASTM D2274-10, Standard Test Method for Oxidation St ability of Distillate Fuel Oil 
(Accelerated Method)  
ASTM D4052-09, Standard Test Method for Density and Relative Density of Liquids by 
Digital Density Meter  
ASTM D4057-06, Standard Practice for Manual Sampling of Petroleum and Petroleum 
Products  
ASTM D4177-95(2010), Standard Practice for Automati c Sampling of Petroleum and 
Petroleum Products  
ASTM D4294-10, Standard Test Method for Sulfur in Petroleum Products by Energy- 
Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry  
ASTM D4530-07, Standard Test Method for Determination of Carbon Residue (Micro 
Method)  
ASTM D4737-10, Standard Test Method for Calculated Cetane Index by Four Variable 
Equation  
ASTM D5186-03(2009), Standard Test Method for Determina tion of the Aromatic Content 
and Polynuclear Aromatic Content of Dies el Fuels and Aviation Turbine Fuels by 
Supercritical Fluid Chromatography  
ASTM D5950-02(2007), Standard Test Method for Pour Point of Petroleum Products 
(Automatic Tilt Method)  
NOTE:  The number immediately following the title of the standard indicates the year. A 
number in brackets indicates the year of last approval. The letter (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or approval. 
Institute of Petroleum 
IP 391-01, Determination of aromatic hydrocarbon types in middle distillates - High 
performance liquid chromatography meth od with refractive index detection   G/TBT/N/TTO/98 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }On a date to be notified by the Minister to 
whom responsibility for trade and industry is assigned, in a Notice to be published in the Trinidad and Tobago Gaze tte as required by the 
Standards Act. 
10. Final date for comments:  17 April 2011 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards 
1-2 Century Drive  Trincity Industrial Estate  Macoya Tunapuna 
Trinidad and Tobago 
Telefax:  (1-868) 663-4335 E-mail:  ttbs@ttbs.org.tt